International Programs

Antibiotic utilization has become one of the most prominent methods of dealing with disease in all parts of the world. Differences in infrastructure, education and public awareness, financial resources, and capitalism have made it virtually impossible to set parameters ideal for antibiotic consumption. The majority of individuals are misusing antibiotics, which ultimately results in the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria. Resistance genes are commonly shared among the bacterial population, so with the increase in today’s travel, there are limitless boundaries to where antibiotic-resistant bacteria can appear. Drug resistance is a serious problem as it allows some pathogenic bacteria to spread throughout the world with no antibiotic solution (which was once available).
In this paper I compared the use of Antibiotics in both the United States and Spain. While each country has set standards for antibiotic use, both are still faced with many hurdles in respects to optimizing antibiotic effectiveness. While having problems in different areas either proved to be ahead of the other in attempts to resolve this problem.
Knowing that the misuse of antibiotics is directly related to antibiotic resistance, we must make a concerted effort to start using antibiotics as they were intended to be used. We must also stop relying solely on antibiotics to deal with disease and focus more on holistic health models. This would help to prevent disease, which would in return lessen the need for antibiotics.